Zeev Jonas (M / Denmark, 1941), Holocaust survivor
Zeev Jonas (M / Denmark, 1941), Holocaust survivor
Hennie Jonas (F / Denmark, 1936), Holocaust survivor
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Biography
Zeev Jonas was born April 5, 1941 in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Anker Jonas and Devorah (Dora) Levine. The family escaped by fishing boat to Sweden during the Nazi round-up of the Jews in October 1943.
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Zeev Jonas is the son of Anker (b. April 27, 1914) and Devorah (Dora) Levine, (b. March 3, 1914). He was born on April 5, 1941 in Copenhagen where his father was a jewelry salesman. Zeev had two siblings: Hennie (b. April 10, 1936) and Bent (Moshe) (b. Feb. 24, 1948). After conditions for Jews became more perilous, Anker considered stealing a rowboat in order to escape to Sweden. Instead he got in touch with the underground. The Jonases moved to a family in Glomso where they stayed a few weeks. From there they left for a small fishing village Espergaerde. They stayed for a day or two when before leaving for Sweden on a fishing boat. The trip only took 1 or 1 and ½ hours. Each family paid a small sum of money for passage (1,500 k approx). Zeev and his family stayed in Stockholm where they had cousins and remained there from October 1943 to May 1945. His father worked in several places including in a job as a chemical engineer. Unfortunately, not all of Zeev's extended family succeeded in escaping; some were sent to Theresienstadt including Zeev's maternal uncle.